SERIALS Returns + Community News

ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT SERIALS WEEKEND???

Mark your calendars for April 2nd - 4th and don’t miss out on the next round of belly laughs, upsets, and competition in community!

News and events from all corners of the SERIALS universe. Kinda like Partiful, but without all the notifications or founders from Palantir.

Theater Write Now

Kopcorp is looking for directors for cohort 3 of Theater Write Now! Tons of SERIALS collaborators have participated in this program, including Emily Oliveira, Georgia Wright, Charlie Tynan, Mackenna Goodrich, Christine Pollnow, Natalia Mar Urzua, and more!

Theatre Write Now is a generative theatre-making cohort for
early career playwrights in New York City. Working with an array of facilitators, the plays generated will receive public staged readings at the end of each cycle.

Applications are open now and can be found here.

Handstand Play

SERIALS collaborator Maddie Ryan is in a new play at the Gene Frankel Theater!

A quick little run down about the piece:

Set in present-day New York City, Handstand follows Mac and Liz, two best friends, roommates, and co-founders of a scrappy downtown theater company. Together, they’ve built a life full of ambition, inside jokes, and one peculiar secret they’ve never had to explain — until now. When Mac starts dating Kyle, the balance begins to shift, slowly unraveling the threads of the girls' carefully constructed world. Handstand is a story about the ties that bind us: to our past, to the people we love, and to the identities we struggle to outgrow. It’s about holding on too tightly, letting go too late, and finding out what remains when the performance ends.

Handstand runs 4/9-4/11! Tickets can be found here.

Our Price to Pay

Emmie D'Amico, Avaana Harvey, and Frances Smith are working on a new sapphic play! Our Price to Pay goes up at The New York City Fringe Festival April 2nd, 4th, 9th, 15th.

Long-distance lovers, Ellie and Sylvia, are savoring their last moments together in Sylvia’s new apartment on the fourth-of-July (of all holidays) before they find themselves launched into the zombie apocalypse. The virus, however, seems to only be targeting those who consume conservative media outlets. They seek shelter in Sylvia's parents' basement, and are forced to "enjoy" a passive aggressive barbecue with her family. As they all break bread, we gain insight into the mindsets of conservatives, as well as into the power of queer resistance.

Tickets can be found here!

Get Together - An Artist Social

Join our very own Michael Ortiz as he speaks on the panel at the Get Together hosted by The Village and Honigman & Sons.

An Artist Social, spend the evening getting to know fellow creatives and collaborators culminating in a panel of industry leaders and peers across disciplines.

The Village and Honigman & Sons is dedicated to early career artists’ journeys beyond a singular event. How does one launch a career in creativity? How have other folks gotten there? This artist social allows early career creatives to mingle with their peers using a sticker style speed dating system. The evening will then culminate in a panel featuring visual artists, performance artists, arts educators, folks working in the arts non-profit world, designers, and so much more! We are so excited to bring this enriching experience to The Village community and beyond.

Tickets are available here!

24 Hour Plays Nationals Applications

Countless SERIALS collaborators, including producer Nicholas Louis Turturro, have participated in the fantastic 24 Hour Plays Nationals Program

The 24 Hour Plays Nationals is a free professional intensive for early-career theater artists. The annual program includes workshops, master classes, panel discussions, career development, community building and more, culminating in a cohort production of The 24 Hour Plays.

Nationals began in 2007 and has gone on to serve nearly 600 actors, directors, playwrights, producers, composers, designers and stage managers. In 2023, we began a partnership with Pace University that continues today. In 2026, the Nationals program expands to Los Angeles in partnership with Stella Adler. Alumni of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals are everywhere in the entertainment industry, on and off Broadway, in television and film, in the leadership of theaters here and abroad. 

The 24 Hour Plays selects its Nationals participants through an open application process. Eligible participants are 18 or over and no more than seven years out of high school OR four years out of undergraduate or equivalent study.

Applications are due March 13th and can be found here.

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